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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Chopin Recital
Jean-Marc Luisada (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - Late Masterpieces
Chopin: | Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Mazurka No. 40 in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4 Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4 Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie' Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 |
Stephen Hough joins the celebrations for Chopin’s 200th birthday with a disc containing much of the composer’s most extraordinary music, written in the last years of his life where the expressive possibilites of his art were constantly unfolding as he imbued his favoured forms with previously unknown levels of complexity and emotional depth. This disc includes the intoxicatingly ornamented Berceuse Op 57 and the sublime Barcarolle in F sharp major as well as the Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major and the towering Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor. Also included are two late Nocturnes which demonstrate how Chopin’s art had evolved since he first composed in that genre in his youth. The programme is completed by a selection of Mazurkas, each a tiny jewel, containing no less mastery than their larger counterparts, and providing moving sonic evidence of the contemplative profundity of Chopin’s late style. Stephen Hough’s extraordinarily sensitive playing is informed by his limitless technique and engaging musical imagination. This is the Chopin of a true Romantic. “A new Hough disc is one of life's pleasures…A masterclass in pianistic command and stylistic poise with the most heartfelt playing of any of his recent recordings. There are few who can elucidate the question-and-answer phrasing of Chopin's music with Hough's transparency and unaffected simplicity.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 “...in every case Hough's command of the music's expressive world is totally convincing...Hough's distinctive voicing of each strand in the musical texture [of Op. 61] is mesmerising. His playing is directly communicative, seductively decorative and, in the sonata, aristocratically controlled.” The Guardian, 15th April 2010 ***** “I was won over by the lovely tone and touch, the seductive warmth and clarity of the inner parts and the beautifully judged rubato. This is unusually forceful Chopin playing — the sonata is like Chopin played by Liszt — but it carries ringing conviction.” Sunday Times, 18th April 2010 **** “Hough’s fingers probe and caress; textures and colours dance and blend with cleansing clarity. Probably the Sonata’s best feature is Hough’s firm grasp of architecture.” The Times, 17th April 2010 **** “Hough stresses the Classical outlook of Chopin's Romanticism, even in a programme encompassing some of his most harmonically advanced music. The opening Barcarolle has rare clarity, and the Berceuse rounds things off clearly.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Horowitz: The Last Recording & Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
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“Ashkenazy plays it marvellously well, and seems oblivious of the difficulties [Gaspard]. His soft playing is really soft, and yet always full of atmosphere and tension. He is lazily relaxed in “Ondine”, hushed and mesmeric in “Le Gibet”, and what one might call calmly brilliant in “Scarbo”. It is this combination of brilliance and poetry that is so individual about his playing, and the combination is especially striking in the Chopin Scherzo in E major. This is an extremely difficult piece to bring off, because it is not enough for the pianist to be merely brilliant. Indeed it is all too easy to make it sound a rather feeble work. Ashkenazy makes it sound tremendously good. He takes it at a great speed, but his approach is fundamentally tender and lyrical. I have never enjoyed it so much …Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse is much more than that. For once it really does sound “joyeuse”, and the exhilaration of it is irresistible. In short, this is a splendid record, and the sound … is all you could wish.”Gramophone January 1966 “On this disc we hear Ashkenazy at his best, idiomatic, warm and flexible in the two Chopin pieces, displaying a dazzling technique, and much more, in the Debussy, and investigating with fascinating results all the weirdness of Ravel.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - Preludes & Nocturnes
Chopin: | Preludes (24), Op. 28 Prelude Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25) Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3 Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2 Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2 Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. Nocturne No. 21 in C minor, BI 108 Prelude Op. posth. in A flat major (No. 26) |
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| |  | Frédéric Chopin - Reminiscences
Chopin: | Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell Waltz' Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1 Waltz No. 17 in E flat major, Op. post., KKIVa:14, B 46 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Mazurka No. 16 in A flat major, Op. 24 No. 3 Mazurka No. 48 in F major, Op. 68 No. 3 Mazurka No. 17 in B flat minor, Op. 24 No. 4 Mazurka No. 10 in B flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 |
“The works chosen reflect a good balance of styles to show off Pizarro's skill, ranging from the brilliance of the Waltzes to the central Nocturnes which almost lull the listener to sleep.” Claire Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 27th January 2005 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Feu Sacre
Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Macha Meril (narrator) Disc One intersperses the works with readings from George Sand's writings by Macha Meril; Disc Two presents them as a straight recital. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Best of Chopin
Chopin: | Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major Prelude Op. 28 No. 9 in E major Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop' Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary' Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key' Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly' Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp' Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': 3rd movement (Funeral March) Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51 Mazurka No. 39 in B major, Op. 63 No. 1 Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie' Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Mazurkas Op. 59 Nos. 1-3 Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' |
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| |  | Horowitz: The Last RecordingChopin, Haydn, Liszt & Wagner
Chopin: | Mazurka No. 35 in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3 Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp' Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 | Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:49 | Liszt: | Variations on a theme from 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' (J S Bach) for piano, S180 Isolde's Liebestod (after Wagner), S447 |
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| |  | Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor
Adam Harasiewicz (Fortepiano Steinway) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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